Teaching faculty

Dr. Ngoc Lan Thi Dang is currently Acting Head of the Language Center and Foundation Year of the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam. She is also an adjunct English instructor and researcher for VGU and two educational research institutes in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. She earned her Master’s degree in Educational Management and Human Resource Development at the University of Sydney in Australia in 2002, and her doctoral degree in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University in the U.S. in 2012.

• Sept 1994 – Aug 2007 International relations officer of Department of International Relations & Project Management and English teacher, School of Education and the Center for Foreign Languages, CTUWorking at VGU since November 2014Field expertise:

Gender issues, women and leadership in academia, administration and governance in higher education, student affairs, and female students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)

Taught courses:

Undergraduate and graduate English courses for students of Can Tho University and Vietnamese-German University

Academic Career:• 2014-Present: Lecturer, Vietnamese-German University (VGU)• 2012-Present: Lecturer, International University (IU), Vietnam National University HCMC• 2008-2010: Teaching Assistant at Pierre and Marie Curie University (France)Teaching at VGU since 2014Field expertise:

I obtained my PhD degree from The University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2016. My field of study is Mathematical Analysis. I am interested in solving mathematical problems and understanding the application of mathematics in real-life contexts.Field expertise:

My main interest lies in the theory of partial differential equations.Specifically I am working with degenerate elliptic operators which are considered as generalisations of strongly elliptic operators.